It was an absolutely horrific place to work. I was enticed into a nice fresh, cleanly cut building in the heart of London only to be put into an office that was only marginally bigger than the desk in the middle. It was so small that you couldn't push you're chair right out without being stopped by the wall behind you. It had a tiny window with no natural air flow, and what little light was shinning through was being blocked by the neighbouring buildings.
To make the experience more stifling, the self proclaimed manager/owner sat at the end of the table boring down on you every waking minute, offering a lot of critisism and no praise while he was eating all day. Working hours were from 8.30 until 6. You were critisised if you arrived after 8.15 and left before 6.15. As if the hours weren't long enough for meagre pay, you had daily performance reviews as to why you were not hoodwinking more graduates into attending an 'assessment day'. I found this ironic as I never saw the owne pick up the phone once and do any work himself. I was confused as to what his role way apart from being consistantly cynical and innopropriate to his staff and what he was actually paying himself for.
I also found the 'assessment day' an absolute farce. It was conducted by a owner with no qualifications to assess or train anybody. He was constistantly racist, saying that 'anybody that was of race or had an accent was not worth passing the day as they would not be easily placed into a role', instead if looking and the qualifications and skillsets they did possess.
The term, 'career progression', was frequaently used however the company itself offered none and the vacancies that their clients had also offered very little career development and progression. The training they did offer was conducted by a member of staff that was fresh out of university a year ago giving me little confidence in her knowledge.
The only sensible piece of advice I was given was to say 'get out now' as someone quite and left.
